Wednesday, January 28, 2009

The Importance of Assessment

Assessments Measure Achievement
Assessment is used as a helpful indicator to measure your child’s achievement. Assessment may measure a basic skill or a child’s overall performance. It is important for all children to do as well as they can on assessments. Because when alot is based on the assessments your child takes and how he or she does can effect thier placement in thier educational community.
Assessment Helps Improve Learning
Schools also use many types of assessments to measure and improve the education program and curriculum of each school. Some assessments indicate that courses or teaching methods need improvement, while other assessments compare students by schools, school districts or cities. All assessments are an indicator of how well a student is learning. Schools assess thier learning environment and tatics by assessign your the students, to find a common ground for both of them.
Lifelong Benefits
Assessment also helps prepare children not only for learning, but also for adulthood. The ability to do well on assessments can benefit a person throughout life in situations such as getting a driver’s license, trying out for sports, or interviewing for a job. Learning how to perform well on assessments has long-lasting effects on your child’s life. Some people makes big moves in thier lives do to the fact of success on assessments.

3 comments:

  1. Excellent post, Kyle.

    What types of assessment measures will you use in your classroom?

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  3. Kyle awesome point! I def. feel that students will come across many assessment throughout their lifetimes! It is important for students to achieve success on assessment because from making a sports team or landing a job from an interview assessments can shape our lives!

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